Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1887-12-16

sometimes the last illness of the ChriAtian
is struggle. He is almost through the
voyage. The waves of temptation Etoss
his soul. hut he waits for the morningE At
last the light dawns and the tides oil Joy
arise in his soul and he sails up and lasts
anchor within the veil.
Is thy heart right? What questiolf can
compare with this in Importance
1t is a business question. DO youf not
realize that you will soon have to GO oht of
that store; that you will soon have to ksign
that partnership; that soon among al the
millions of dollars worth of goods hat are
sold in New York you will not havS the
handling of yard Of cloth, or pou,td of
sugar, or a pennyworh of anything; that
soon if contagration should start at len-
trail Park and sweep everything to the Bat
terry, it would not disturb you; that soon,
If every cashier should abscond, and every
insurance company should fail, it v build
not affect YOU? What are the ques Ions
that stop this side the grave compared With
the questions that reach beyond it? Are
you making losses that are to be ever asst
ing? Are you making purchases for ',ter-
nifty? Are you jobbing for time wher Iyou
might be wholesaling for eternity? That
question of the store is SO broad a,lthe
base and SO altitudinous and 80 overwhJ m-
ing rs the question, as thy heart right"
Or is it domestic question? Is itsolle-
thing about father, mother, or companil n,
or son, OF daughter, that you think is cotl-
parable with this question in Importance?
DO you not realize that by universal and
memorable law all these regulations will De
broken up? Your father will be gone,
your mother will be gone, your companion
will be gone, Your child will be gone, you
will be gone; then this supernal question
will begin to harvest its chief gains, o. de-
plore its worst losses, roll up into its
mightiest magnitude, or sweep its vast cir-
cles. What difference now does it make to
Napoleon Ill. whether he triumphed or
surrendered at Sedan? whether he lived at
was Emperor or exile? They laid him out
ill his coffin in the dress of field marshal.
Did that give him any better chance for
the next world than if he had been laid out
in plain shroud? And soon to us what
will be the difference whether in this world
we rode or walked, were bowed to or mall
treated, we're applauded or Missed at, were
welcomed in or kicked out, while laying
hold every moment of the great future and
burning in all the splendor Of grief and
overarching and undergoing all time and
all eternity is the plain, simple, practical,
thrilling, agonizing, overwhelming qqes-
you within you repenting heart, an
expectant heart? If not must write upon
your soul what George Whiteheld wrote
upon the window pane with his diamond
ring. He tarried in an elegant house
over night, but found that there was no
God recognized in that house. Before he
left his room in the morning with his ring
he wrote upon the window pane, Zone
| thing thou lackest." After the guest was
gone the housewife came up and looked at
the window and saw the inscription and
called her husband and her children, and
God, through that ministry of the window
you may to-day be surrounded by COM
forts and Injuries, and feel you have need
of nothing, il you are not the children of
God, with the signet ring of Christ's love,
let me inscribe upon your souls, "One
thing thou lackest." ] pray you that,
whatever else YOU may miss,
you may not miss Heaven. 1t is too
bright home to lose. Yoursoul has been
bought at too dear price. preach to
you of the blood that cleanseth from oil
sin. Casting all your sins behind you, I
kingdom. Yes" you say, II will start,
but not now" William III. made procla-
nation, when there was revolution in the
north of Scotland, that all who came and
took the oath of allegiance by the 3lst of
December should be pardoned. MacIan,
a chieftain of prominent class, resolved
to return with the rest of the rebels, but
had some pride in being the very last
one that should take the oath. He
postponed starting for this purpose until
two days before the expiration of the
term. A snow storm impeded his way,
and before he got up to take the oath and
receive pardon from the throne the time
was up and past. While the others were
set free, MacIan was miserably put 10
death. He started too late and arrived too
late. In like manner some of you are IN
prospect of losing forever the amnesty of
the Gospel. Many Of you are going to be
forever too late. Remember the irrepara-
BILE mistake of MacIan!